Friday, August 31, 2007

APOD of August 30

I looked at the picture from August 30th, of the lunar eclipse from August 28th. The picture interested me justbecause it's beautiful and because I couldn't see the eclipse nearly as clearly when I watched it. The many links provide information about where the eclipse was visible from, what times it would be visible, what a lunar eclipse was, a page of different pictures of the same eclipse from around the world (some of which included a turquoise color on the moon, which I hadn't seen before), a few pictures from previous APODs describing the sunset and the silluohette around the Earth, and even an... odd future story of the year 2105? One link even led to a story of an Astronomer who hoped that the Eclipse would allow her to watch Helion meteors impact the moon due to the lighting (I guess Helion meteors are extremely difficult to observe due to the fact that they come from the direction of the sun). It didn't mention if the Astronomer Cooke had succeeded in viewing the impacts or not.